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Type your answer here... lord Jesus used them so that people of this world may not understand

Another answer:Parables were a teaching tool in story form, extensively used by Jesus, in which one thing represented another. Specifically, in Jesus' teachings, something temporal or ordinary represented something spiritual or extraordinary. The word "parable" comes from the Greek parabole, which literally means "a placing of one thing by the side of another."

They can be described as "extended metaphors" in this sense of a metaphor: "something used, or regarded as being used, to represent something else."

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